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Getting a Turkish work permit in Alanya

| 15/05/2012 | 0 Comments
Getting a Turkish work permit in Alanya

If you want to work or get a job in Alanya Turkey or search for jobs in Alanya Turkey has become a business hub for many companies and some of them are now moving their headquarters here. This raises an issue that I have written several articles related to: work permits. I still receive lots [...]

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Companies or trusted Turkish friends

| 06/05/2012 | 0 Comments
Companies or trusted Turkish friends

One of the biggest debates in Turkey is if foreigners should be allowed to buy property in Turkey or not and whether there should be a limitation on those interested in purchasing property here. Indeed, many foreigners have purchased property in Turkey in recent years by using special purpose companies or trusted Turkish friends. The [...]

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Bmibaby set to close soon

| 04/05/2012 | 0 Comments
Bmibaby set to close soon

Cheap flights and low cost airline bmibaby is set to close later this year, and with it the possibility that hundreds of jobs could be axed. The carrier transferred to International Airlines Group, the owners of British Airways, last month, but consultations have now started with unions about its closure in September. The GMB union [...]

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Law regulating the sale of property to foreigners

| 03/05/2012 | 0 Comments
Law regulating the sale of property to foreigners

Alanya following brief, this law also followed very closely. Parliamentary General Assembly, the Law regulating the sale of property to foreigners, and the third article of the Draft Law Amending the Law on Cadastre was adopted. Following adoption of the third article of the bill, Parliament Deputy Chairman Mehmet Saglam, specifying the work has expired, [...]

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Most popular Turkish legend

| 30/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Most popular Turkish legend

According to the most popular Turkish legend, a sultan had a much beloved daughter. One day, an oracle prophesied that she would be killed by a venomous snake on her 18th birthday. The sultan, in an effort to thwart his daughter’s early demise by placing her away from land so as to keep her away [...]

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Do we know what we are eating?

| 30/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Do we know what we are eating?

If the theory of “you are what you eat” proves to be correct, whether we know what we are eating becomes an important question. How big can a tomato grow? How perfect can it be? I look at the tomatoes in the supermarket and they all seem to be perfectly one size, shining and with [...]

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Thomas Cook Alanya holidays

| 26/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Thomas Cook Alanya holidays

Thomas Cook is near finalising a £1.2 billion refinancing agreement that will give the company another two years of breathing room to turn its business around. A group of 17 banks that includes Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland is anticipated to approve loan extensions until 2015. The deal is seen as good news by [...]

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Best Turkish holiday resorts

| 24/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Best Turkish holiday resorts

Millions of tourists love to escape to the sandy beaches and exciting atmosphere of Turkey. But with so many wonderful resorts to choose from, where do you start? Find out all about five of the best Turkish resorts and help research the dream holiday you deserve. Kusadasi In a few short decades Kusadasi has turned [...]

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185km route from Kemer to Alanya

| 24/04/2012 | 0 Comments
185km route from Kemer to Alanya

Alanya in Turkey and muted presence in many of the races he has competed in thus far this year, Alexandre Vinokourov sparked into action on the second stage of the Presidential Tour of Turkey and was clear for much of the stage in the day’s main break. The Astana leader appeared to have been inspired [...]

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ZX Spectrum and St George`s Day

| 23/04/2012 | 0 Comments
ZX Spectrum and St George`s Day

ZX Spectrum with Google Doodle! The ZX Spectrum (the “Z” is pronounced “Zed” from its original British English branding) is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by [...]

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Turkish and foreign animal rights supporters

| 21/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Turkish and foreign animal rights supporters

Alanya Turkish and foreign animal rights supporters plan to carry out demonstrations next week to protest a dolphinarium in Antalya’s Ka? district to which four bottlenose dolphins were moved in December 2011 by the operator of a facility near Bodrum to be exploited in commercial dolphin shows and to provide controversial dolphin therapy. The German [...]

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Sending or receiving international money transfers

| 21/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Sending or receiving international money transfers

Confusing, time consuming and expensive are just some of the words that can be used to describe international payments. If you’re looking to save time and money when sending or receiving international money transfers, whether you are an individual or business, independent foreign exchange broker Currency Index’s new resource can help. Brought to you by [...]

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Monarch announced today

| 16/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Monarch announced today

Leading scheduled leisure airline, Monarch announced today the renewal of its Elite Sponsorship deal with Northampton Saints for a further two years. The deal will see Monarch’s logo remain on the Saints’ home, away and cup shirts until at least 2014. The award-winning scheduled leisure airline flies a fleet of 32 aircraft from four UK [...]

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1,500-year-old Bible was discovered

| 25/02/2012 | 0 Comments
1,500-year-old Bible was discovered

Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers. The document is in Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, written in gold Syriac characters on leather pages loosely bound together with string. It was part of a haul [...]

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Buying property in Alanya

| 24/02/2012 | 0 Comments
Buying property in Alanya

When buying property abroad, usually one of the necessary obstacles is the exchange of a large amount of currency needed to pay for your purchase. Many people buying abroad still neglect to think about currency exchange until it is too late, and end up paying more than they need to, with added stress levels too. [...]

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Greece and other governments

| 24/02/2012 | 0 Comments
Greece and other governments

Away from the markets’ fixation with the debts of Greece and other governments, concern is growing at the painfully slow progress Europe is making in tackling a much bigger mountain of corporate and household debt. With austerity pointing to weak growth if not outright recession, the risk is that the burden of servicing the debt [...]

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Turkish legal topic in English

| 24/02/2012 | 0 Comments
Turkish legal topic in English

Most people who read the title will think this subject concerns only a handful of people active in major investments. In a way it does, but indirectly, it concerns everybody who wants Turkey to do well economically by attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). You cannot imagine how difficult it is to write about a purely [...]

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The failure of the Security Council

| 10/02/2012 | 0 Comments
The failure of the Security Council

Turkey plans new world meeting as UN rights chief says veto has fuelled massacre Russia on Wednesday warned against outside interference in Syria after more than 50 civilians were reportedly killed in the restive city of Homs on the fifth consecutive day of shelling by Syrian forces. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the West [...]

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2012 Turkey Holidays

| 15/01/2012 | 0 Comments
2012 Turkey Holidays

In 2012, Turkey will give more weight to promotion and marketing by participating in 157 fairs in 63 countries such as Germany, Russia, Netherlands and United Kingdom, which are its major tourism markets. The exhibition calendar of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism includes also the tourism fairs in Israel and Syria. Particularly the touristic [...]

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Cancelled a trip to America

| 15/01/2012 | 0 Comments
Cancelled a trip to America

Time to payback and needs to be payed back because if this was in UK would be same and no need to even discuss further, The Duchess of York is reportedly facing more than 20 years in jail, after Turkish authorities charged her for breaching “privacy” of orphans in that country by secretly filming them [...]

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